STATEMENT “I create the kind of paintings I like to live with. I occupy myself less with filling the canvas with objects, focusing instead on color, texture and line work to convey mood and emotion. I enjoy the versatility of acrylic paint. It affords the spontaneity and layering effect I seek. As someone who has divided her life between city and shore, my inspirations are generally drawn from those experiences.”

BIO Leona is a native New Yorker who has lived in New Jersey for many years. A media professional by trade, she has also pursued a career in the arts in the past decade. Leona works in acrylics, mixed media and occasionally in oil. Her lyrical abstract paintings have been featured in juried shows and galleries in Connecticut, New Jersey and New York, and her artworks are in private and corporate collections.

Leona is an award-winning artist, and an active member of the Lyrical Abstract Expressionism Painting Workshop at the Guild of Creative Art in Shrewsbury, NJ, where she is an exhibiting member. She is a member of the Art Alliance of Monmouth County, NJ. Leona studied at the Arts Students League and at the Parsons School of Design in New York City.